"One of the very best introductions to the history of human rights in the modern world for both undergraduate and graduate students. The essays, by a wide range of scholars, represent some of the best work in the field and nicely survey the range of what we think we know about human rights, a quite new field of historical study....The contributions are well edited and cohere as a volume in a manner that few collections of conference papers do. Highly recommended."--
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The Human Rights Revolution is an excellent volume that strongly advances an emerging field of historical research. Together, the individual chapters illuminate a wide range of topics. They provide an engaged, critical perspective on the most important issue of our time."--Eric D. Weitz, University of Minnesota
"By their very nature as universal claims, human rights demand an international history. With this path-breaking and highly readable volume, that history takes a quantum leap forward."--Benjamin Nathans, University of Pennsylvania